Center of Power 2 *
is about your turnout.
Where your toes point to, is determined 100% by the rotation of your leg deep in the hip socket.
If you simply arrange your foot to point outwards, but have not engaged your turnout muscles at the top of your leg, in the hip socket, then you are not turned out.
The whole foot moves in this exercise. What you don't want is for the heel to remain solidly in place.
To find the muscles that enable your turnout muscles, watch the belly up video (find it in the list at the left).
In the belly up video you will see the use of the transverse abdominis muscle.
Then hold your glutes together in the back, and you are good-to-go to make the robot-leg rotate for you.
Spend a little time each day, massaging your feet to loosen them up -- and as you relax and press the 3 different pads of your feet into the floor, you will become aware of how you are actually using your feet when you walk.
At first when we practice certain movements, we have to apply extreme deliberation to the process.
But after a while, muscle memory kicks in, and the various part of your feet will naturally move and be more reactive to stimuli-- becoming less stiff -- and you won't have to give your feet such conscious thought.
Ettie Steg
modern dancer, teacher, speaker, author
NESTA certified:
Pilates Specialist,
Biomechanics Specialist,
Core Specialist
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